“All of the foreheads, and in some cases even the chins, fall off the edge of the paper creating a too-tight cropping that is reminiscent of amateur photography. The portraits, small as they are, give the impression of expanding beyond the edges of the paper. The viewer is […]
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) recently announced that Lisa A. Arnette has assumed the position of Director of Development and External Relations at the museum. From 1998 to 2003, Arnette served as a development officer at the Utah Museum of Natural History (UMNH) on the University […]
Exhibition Review: Salt LakeA Vietnamese Yes We CanChanging Identities at the UMFAby Ehren ClarkThese artists are not the Asian "wall flowers" one might think Vietnamese woman to be. They are women of strength, unwilling to succumb to their relative obscurity in the world; instead these artists make bold […]
Exhibition Review: Salt Lake Visual Reversal The Later Works of William Utermohlen by Sheryl Gillilan Portraits from the Mind: The Later Works of William Utermohlen 1995-2000, at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, is a haunting visual depiction of a talented artist’s descent into the hell of Alzheimer’s […]
Exhibition Review: Salt Lake An Innermost Journey The Paintings of Shauna Cook Clinger at the UMFA by Geoff Wichert An Innermost Journey: The Art of Shauna Cook Clinger, in the main gallery at the UMFA through February 15, 2009, raises old questions about the relative importance of content […]
Organization Spotlight: Salt Lake The UMFA’s Young Benefactors While organizations that choose for titles expressing youth or contemporaneity benefit from the energy evoked by their name, time has a way of catching up to them and complicating their brand. When the Museum of Modern Art in New York […]
Organization Spotlight: Salt Lake The UMFA’s Young Benefactors While organizations that choose for titles expressing youth or contemporaneity benefit from the energy evoked by their name, time has a way of catching up to them and complicating their brand. When the Museum of Modern Art in New York […]
by Kindra Fehr One fascinating aspect of Contemporary art has been its interest in expanding the canon of materials used in its creation. Moving beyond traditional painting, drawing and sculpture, we are beginning to see a wide, essentially endless, array of sources. This opening of the material canon has […]
by Kasey Boone If you haven’t been to the UMFA in a while (and, well, there’s good reason – it’s the only art museum in the state that charges regular admission fees!) then make March your month to go. If you time things right, you will not only […]
